They build wooden houses on frozen ponds In the summertime when the water's gone The egg and the lion's in their old outlawns And the sage always smells so pretty But nobody cares where the birds have gone When the rain comes down on Babylon The stonemason's phone rings all day long And you gotta get back to the city I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothing in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden And you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listening to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's you and me on the rock I built paper planes when I learned to fly Like a 747 falling out of the sky I folded them crooked, now I'm wondering why I could always end up in the water Nobody's asking why she's looking so thin Why's she laughing too hard, why's she drinking again I'm calling stores, she's a paper plane And she was going down when you caught her I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothing in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden And you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listening to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's an earthquake It's a hard wind It's a record-breaking tide And it isn't rolling in It's a big sea But it can't touch you and me It's just a water view And a water view I don't need their money, baby It's you and me on the rock You and me on the rock It's you and me on the rock I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothing in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden And you out on your walk Is all the distance this old girl can take Without listening to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's you and me on the rock You and me on the rock I don't need their money, baby It's you and me on the rock It's you and me You and me on the rock It's you and me You and me on the rock It's you and me